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Don't Be Cyber Bullied

Cyber Bullying is social terror by technology ... and it’s on the rise.

When a kid of any age, up to 18 is threatened, humiliated, harassed, or humiliated via use of technology --- this is Cyber Bullying. It’s harmful and it’s dangerous!

This social online terror is used through e-mail, cell phones, pager text messages, instant messaging, Web sites, online personal polling Web sites. It is done by kids deliberately and repeatedly and is used by an individual or group with the intention of harming other kids and teens.

It’s cool to use technology to talk to your friends and make new ones. While most kids use the Internet responsibly, others are using all of this technology to terrorize and Cyberbully!

Cyber Bullying is the perfect way for bullies to remain anonymous.

Cyber Bullying makes it easier for bullies because they are not face to face with their victim(s.)

Take Some Tips From Krysten Moore, Miss Teen New Jersey International 2007 and Teen Bullying and Cyber Bullying Prevention Spokesperson for Love Our Children USA:

Kids And Teens Bully Online In Various Ways:

- Instant Messaging/Text Messaging Harassments

- Sending hateful or threatening messages to other kids
- Kids send death threats using IM, text-messaging, photos and videos

Kids gang up on their victim in text wars or text attacks. They send hundreds or thousands of text-messages to the victim's cell phone or other mobile device, resulting in a large cell phone bill and angry parents.

Texting or Warning Wars kicks someone else offline for an extended period because ISP's offer a way of "telling on" a user who uses the Internet for inappropriate behavior, remarks and language.

- A kid may create a screen name that is very similar to another kid's name but add or remove an extra vowel. Then they use the screen name to say disparaging things to other users while posing as the other person.

Web Sites
By using web sites to post other kids photos, videos and their personal information (such as phone numbers, address, etc.) to humiliate them, the kid who is the victim could be in great danger.

Sending Pictures through E-mail and Cell Phones
Sending other kids pictures with rumors to everyone in your cell phone and email address book is cruel and harmful.

Impersonation

Posing as the victim, Cyber Bullies may post erotic or suggestive messages in a hate group's chatroom posing as the victim -- inviting an attack against them.

They give the name, address and phone number of the victim to make the hate group's job easier. They might even send a message to someone posing as the victim, saying hateful or threatening things while masquerading as the victim. And they often alter a message actually from the victim, making it seem that they have said something horrible.

Sending Porn and Other Junk E-Mail and IMs

Cyber Bullies may sign their victims up for numerous e-mailing and IM marketing lists which creates mass emails for the victim. They even sign them up for inappropriate sites.

Blogs

Blogs damage other kids' reputations and Invade their privacy. Sometimes kids set up a blog or profile page pretending to be their victim and saying things to humiliate them.

Stealing Passwords

By stealing someone’s password to lock them out of their own account, to change his/her profile and write sexual, racist and disparaging remarks about them, to chat with others pretending to them, or for any other reason is wrong!

And kids poll to answer. This is cruel, harmful, it’s cyberbullying and it’s wrong!

Interactive Gaming

When playing interactive games you’re able to chat and talk live on the Internet phone with anyone you find yourself matched with in a game online. This is not an area where anyone should be verbally abusing anyone, using threats or lewd language. It’s also not appropriate to lock others out of games, pass false rumors about them or hacking into their accounts.

If you think kids couldn't possibly be this cruel – Think Again! It happens all the time!!

Some reports of Cyber Bullies are as young as 7 or 8 years-old.

It’s hard to believe that anyone would want to be treated like this. For sure you wouldn’t want to be treated so cruelly.

Even if you don’t like someone, or you think they’re different, there is still NEVER any reason to bully another person online or in any other way.

The best choices you can make are to:

Just don’t be friends with that person

Treat everyone you know with kindness and compassion

After all … someone might not like you! How do you want to be treated?